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A round up of publications, new issues and events.
REVIEW: BLADE RUNNER 2049
This week, Steve reviews the new(ish) movie Blade Runner 2049. Does he like it? Have you seen it? Did you like it? Check out the review and see if you agree!
Unfair Review (with spoilers): Blade Runner 2049
Do androids dream of electric eyes? Not if they’re Jared Leto’s….
40 years on, did Star Wars change SF for the better or worse?
Imagine George Lucas at the Pearly Gates: would he get into heaven because of his contribution to science fiction, or would he be cast down?
REVIEW: Ghost in the Shell (2017)
The 2017 version of Ghost in the Shell is unlikely to satisfy fans of the original, but it is not without its points of interest.
Star Wars and SF cinema: Where would the genre have gone without it?
You think Star Wars ruined the possibility for “legitimate science fiction” to appear on the big screen? Darren Slade suggests that you think again.
Not the Times Table You Learned In Grade School…
N. J. Rayner’s The Time Table is a frustrating reading experience, with some excellent bits and others…not so much.
EBOOKS & MOVIES! A New Storybundle plus 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE and BATTLE PLANET!
Chocolate and bacon, the only things better than cheap eBooks and SF movies! (Okay, there’s sex and alcohol too.) Steve offers you both! (No, not sex and alcohol—ebooks & movies!)
Review: Beautiful Intelligence, by Stephen Palmer
Beautiful Intelligence is a bracingly imaginative novel. By choosing to operate within a realistic, post-crash, dystopian cyberpunkish framework Stephen Palmer has written his most accessible and commercial work to-date.
Time Out’s ‘100 Best Sci-Fi Films’
This week the UK London listings and entertainment guide Time Out published part of an on-going series of genre by genre features on the 100 Best Films. The current one is ‘The 100 best sci-fi movies’. Gary Dalkin takes a look…
Retrospective: A Minority Verdict Against Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report
Upon release in 2002 the film Minority Report, nominally based on a story by Philip K. Dick, received almost universally ecstatic reviews. I was among the minority of dissenting voices, and what follows, my minority retort
MOVIE REVIEW: Dean Koontz’s ODD THOMAS
Dean Koontz has had more of his novels filmified than Demon Seed. Bet you didn’t know that.
Noticias Literatura 5-2
Estadística sobre lo publicado en castellano en 2013 y adaptación radiofónica de “Blade Runner.”
A Different Type of Classics Illustrated
In the 1980s, DC comics found a different way to adapt some sf classics…introducing the Graphic Album
Too Long After – A Time Limit On Sequels & Prequels?
How long after is too long? Returning to a great original is fraught with difficulties at any time, but the more time goes by, the more the problems compound.
Book Review – Feast and Famine by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Imaginings Volume: 6 – Feast and Famine is a collection of ten short stories by the British writer Adrian Tchaikovsky, best known for the nine-volume (and counting) fantasy series, Shadows of the Apt, published by Tor.
AMAZING News August 25, 2013
Conventions, Readings, Scientific Advances, Awards, Trouble Makers and Just Plain Fun Stuff
Ender’s Game Over
I have a personal rule not to get involved in online discussions which have the potential to turn fractious. Yesterday I made the mistake of responding to a kindly put question on a well known […]
Like Tears in Rain
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_hYs1jBy8Y&w=570&h=321] You can almost smell the rain, feel it hammer the leather of your trenchcoat. Hear the harmonic buzz of blue neon all around you. You can taste the Tsingtao, bubbly and cool on […]
City Lights, City Grunge
From Metropolis to Blade Runner, the city of the future has been a subject for science fiction artists and film makers, who have vented both dreams and deep-seated fears. This blog post offers a collection […]
When You Shouldn’t Read John Scalzi
Like many readers, I became a fan of John Scalzi after reading his Old Man’s War. It’s a wonderful book and it led me on to his others. I’ve now read most of his novels […]
The Fire Must Be Kept Burning
Last Saturday, I spent my morning on the couch with a debilitating migraine, wondering what karmic injustice I’d committed in order to deserve being so miserable on my weekend off. But like the glass-half-full seeker […]
Crossroads: The Western Hero in Speculative Fiction
Someone once said that every story starts with someone either coming to town, or leaving town. And there is no genre for which this adage holds more true than the western. It probably takes us […]
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